Manitoba Medication errors blamed on handwriting, tired nurses CBC News · Posted: Apr 15, 2003 10:19 AM PDT | Last Updated: April 15, 2003 ...

Hospital medication errors frequent with children Nursing workload, ineffective communication factors in 4 child deaths CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2013 5:21 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18, 2013 ...

Medication errors remain a significant concern across Canada’s home care and long-term care (LTC) systems. While digital eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Records) tools have replaced many ...

The Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists implemented SafetyNET-RX, a research and outreach program, in 2010 that requires its pharmacists to report all errors to The Institute for Safe Medication ...

In the first year of mandatory reporting, Ontario hospitals disclosed that 36 patients had suffered severe adverse events — 10 of them fatal — because of medication errors.

The shortage of pain medication for infants and children in late 2022 contributed to a more than 50 per cent surge in calls around dosing errors within Canadian households, a new report found.

Dubbed COMPASS (Community Pharmacy Professionals Advancing Safety in Saskatchewan), the program will start Dec. 1. Going forward, medication errors must be entered in a common database.

Clinical Decision Support as a Prevention Tool for Medication Errors in the Operating Room: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2024; DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007058 ...